Diary of a bird to be...
I’m here
A citizen Science Project
By Patricia Calabria
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This is the day I was laid:Loading...
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Photo (or drawing) of my mother:Loading...
Photo (or drawing) of my father:Loading...
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Photo (or drawing) of my nest:Loading...
Materials that were used to build my nest (at least the ones that you can recognize):Loading...
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This is how it looks inside here!Loading...
You may wonder how I can breathe inside this egg... but if we zoom in the egg shell under the microscope you will find an interesting surprise...
Breathing
Pores on the egg’s shell!
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Pores on the surface of the egg shell not only allow for gas exchange but also for the exchange of water between the embryo and the environment.
So now you know how i get my nutrients and the oxygen i need to grow...another very important variable is the temperature. I need to be kept warm in order to survive... I can’t control my body temperature when I’m inside here so i need to be incubated.
Incubation
Did you know?
When a material can’t isolate the heat,
We call it a heat conductor?
When a material can’t isolate the heat,
We call it a heat conductor?
How can we tell if a material is a good insulator?
Thermal insulators are bad at transferring heat. Materials can transfer heat when molecules that had absorbed heat(energy) bump into colder molecules.
There’s a property of the material that tells us how good the material can transfer/conduct heat. It’s called the thermal conductivity.
Big thermal conductivity
Material is good thermal conductor
Small thermal conductivity
Material is good thermal insulator
Thermal conductivity of some insulators
Thermal conductivity of some metals
We can try an experiment to see if birds would use materials that are not thermal insulators to build their nest...we can leave pieces of wire or metals (aluminum foil) near the site of the smart nest and check if they are used by the birds.
Write down all the examples you can find at home or at school of good thermal insulator materials and good heat conductors (try not to use the ones on the table)
Good Thermal insulators
Good Thermal conductors
write down your observations of what happens in the nest during my incubation:
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